[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WL-News] Wikimedia Foundation in dangeroflosing immunity under the Communications Decency Act

[Anthony]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Brian McNeil
<brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> I'm hardly a random admin.
>
Could you elaborate on that?  Were you elected to a special position
in the admin community?  I admit I'm not familiar with the Wikinews
structure.

> For the Bauer article I received a most concerned email from Mike Godwin
> that there was a risk that publication was contempt of court, so the issue
> was an IAR one.
>
What is meant by "publication", what exactly did the court order, and
if the court ordered the Foundation to delete the article, why did
they have to contact you to do it?  When you say you're hardly a
random admin, do you mean you're acting as an agent of the
organization?

How big was the risk?  Obviously there's always some risk with just
about anything.  Who made the decision that the legal risk was too
great to bear?  Mike?  You?  Someone else?  No one?